Archive - 27 February 2006

The government has increased the price of petrol by a whopping 30 sen, from RM1.62 to RM1.92 per litre for top grade RON 97 effective midnight.

Since yesterday morning, the taps have been running foul causing concern to thousands.

ECM Libra speaks out against allegations involving the company and one of its directors, Khairy Jamaluddin, who is claimed to have been involved in the boutique investment company's multi-million business dealings.

A set of questions and proposed amendments to the two water bills were submitted to the Energy, Water and Communications ministry today.

It's not only state-owned TV2 which aired the offensive caricatures of Prophet Muhammad. Malaysiakini obtained a clip of similar images shown by private station TV3.

Apparently, the daily's owners were planning a 're-organisation' which could have meant ceasing publication.

The issue is not about whether there was double standards regarding giving the New Straits Times a reprieve...

How could Malaysia's expert in the science of semiotics or in the art of critical media analysis not able to analyse the ideological-embedded-ness of the 'Non Sequitur' cartoon strip? Tsk, tsk.

The human rights commission does not regard Article 121 (1A) as violating human rights, a view reached after two recent meetings.

special report Memories of the Cheras anti-toll protests are vivid, but questions remain unanswered on details of the contract and payment of compensation to the concessionaire.

The opposition party slams the use of disparaging language. It claims it had no connection with the demonstration organised by PAS.

The popular blog was brought down by a denial-of-service attack which began late last night.

The 17-year-old girl from the Klang Valley was worried of contracting bird flu as she was handling chickens.

The menteri besar laments that the state coffers are empty and because of this not all would receive compensation.

If you have to discriminate, do it to me, he says, in seeking the liberation of women in the Indonesian province.

The party president says the Chinese-based MCA upholds racial harmony and works with other races to ensure stability in the country.

The malaise in the Malaysian press goes back to government control over editorial operations and reporting processes.

While Adenan Satem was believed to be the next in line, Taib Mahmud's speech over the weekend had thrust the rumour mills into overdrive.

Some RM4 billion was needed to carry out the turnaround, and the carrier would ask the government to secure some of the funds while raising RM2 billion internally.

Ongoing political unrest in the Philippines and Thailand will not hurt solidarity among Southeast Asian countries, says Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar.

We may no longer be No 1. Indonesia will overtake Malaysia due to aggressive planting and the large number of palm oil trees reaching maturity

The bird flu outbreak in Malaysia and elsewhere in the region was one of several concerns for the high-flying budget carrier.

Air traffic controllers at Kuala Lumpur International Airport say safety may be compromised if the low-cost terminal opens as scheduled next month.

Four hours of continuous rain caused the Damansara river west of Kuala Lumpur to burst its banks and flood hundreds of homes in Shah Alam and surrounding areas.

"All five have tested negative," Ramlee Rahmat, director of the Health Ministry's disease control division.

At least four new top hotels are under construction in Kuala Lumpur, which is seeing inner-city property prices surge for the first time since the regional economic crisis of the late 1990s.

Embattled automaker Proton said today its profits plummeted 39 percent to RM86.51 million in the three months to December.